Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 137

Many other valiant deeds he wrought that day, nor did Oliver lag behind, nor Turpin the Archbishop, riding on the famous horse which he took from the King of Denmark.

Who acts: Many other valiant, valiant, Oliver, famous horse · What happens: deed, wrought, lag behind, ride, take · To what, where: Turpin

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many other valiant, valiant, Oliver, famous horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 valiant	amod
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 valiant	amod
3	valiant	valiant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deeds	nsubj
4	deeds	deed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrought	nsubj
6	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deeds	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrought	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lag	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 lag	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lag	aux
12	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lag	nsubj
13	lag	lag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrought	conj
14	behind	behind	ADV	_	13 lag	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Turpin	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 Turpin	cc
17	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deeds	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Archbishop	det
19	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Turpin	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 riding	punct
21	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 deeds	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 horse	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 riding	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 took	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 horse	acl:relcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 King	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Denmark	case
33	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 King	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	deed	present	Many other valiant	Turpin			tree rules
2	wrought	past	valiant		day		tree rules
3	lag behind	past · do-support	Oliver			behind property	tree rules
4	ride	gerund	Many other valiant not said here			on the famous horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	the famous horse			from the King of Denmark; Oliver nsubj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from king=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 137

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Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 137